New YorkHunter College’s Hunter Theater Project, which mounts professional productions under the auspices of the school’s drama department, got under way in high style in the fall of 2018 with Richard Nelson’s intimate staging of his own adaptation of “Uncle Vanya,” one of the three or four finest Chekhov productions I’ve ever seen. This season it’s presenting an 85-minute “Macbeth” of like originality and stature, performed in a tiny 122-seat theater on a thrust stage that puts the actors in your lap. Adapted and directed...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2020 21:00 UTC